Further update on the Excessive serial data delay seen as above. Many, many thanks to Keith doing the hard yards attempting to sort out this issue for me.
At this stage, after running all evening as a public show, without the utility running my Ledtrix Panel everything ran perfectly, log file attached. I then ran the schedule manually, with the Ledtrix utility running the panel, and that was fine, Log file attached, as well, plus a screen shot of Taskmanager and the command line utility running while operating.
The biggest change visible in Taskmanager was the processor activity, we watched it running at around 20% - 25% when "bug fighting" it now sits between 1% - 5% and only jumps to 10% when loading the next sequence in the schedule, and the "Turtle" only appears for about 3 sec's.
The only change I can remember making since the delay last appeared was moving some log reported missing files to where xschedule was looking for them. If that was the cure, it seems the problem may have been created by ubiquitous finger trouble by the operator when moving all the data involved from the sequencing machine to the show machine :-( Mainly drive related I suspect, xLights is on "E" drive on the sequencing machine, while the show machine is using "C" drive, serious food for thought!!!
I be able to relax once the show has run a few times without issue, although at this stage it certainly looks hopeful, and positive. Being of a "Certain Age", hardware trained and isolated here in NZ, I cannot speak highly enough of the software writers/designers making themselves available to dig us mere mortals out of deep holes when they are busy with their own displays, and work, heaps of thanks to all involved :-)
Cheers,
Terry
